Goodbye 2020, Hello Fruits & Veggies

Deepti Pradhan
4 min readJan 2, 2021

The United Nations has marked 2021 as the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables

Across the world, almost 110,000 people die every day from a noncommunicable disease. This number has been increasing in the last ten years. In fact, deaths from noncommunicable diseases exceed deaths from all communicable diseases combined.

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Deepti Pradhan

Employed at Yale University, Deepti is primarily a scientist & patient advocate. She runs Tilde Cafe, a forum to make science accessible (www.tildecafe.org)